Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Feature-Based Transfer Learning Approach

Anwar P. P. Abdul Majeed*, Wan Hasbullah Mohd Isa, Ahmad Ridhauddin Abdul Rauf, Ahmad Fakhri Ahmad, Mohd Hafiz Arzmi, Hadyan Hafizh, Eng Hwa Yap

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Oral cancer, particularly Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC), has a high mortality rate due to late detection. However, manual diagnosis is difficult and time-consuming. Hence, the employment of machine learning methods has been explored to aid diagnosis through automated image classification. This study aims to evaluate pipelines combining pre-trained VGG19 convolutional neural network (CNN) model that is used to extract discriminative features from normal and cancerous oral histopathology images. The extracted features were fed to different machine learning models, support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbours (kNN), and random forest (RF) were trained to classify the images. It was demonstrated that the VGG199-RF yielded the best performance across the training, validation, and test dataset with a classification accuracy of 99%, 92%, and 90%, respectively, against other pipelines evaluated. The study demonstrates that feature-based transfer learning is an attractive and effective approach to be employed for computer-aided diagnosis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics - Selected Articles from ICIMR 2023
EditorsAndrew Tan, Fan Zhu, Haochuan Jiang, Kazi Mostafa, Eng Hwa Yap, Leo Chen, Lillian J. A. Olule, Hyun Myung
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages433-438
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9789819984978
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
EventInternational Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, ICIMR 2023 - Suzhou, China
Duration: 22 Aug 202323 Aug 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume845
ISSN (Print)2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)2367-3389

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, ICIMR 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CitySuzhou
Period22/08/2323/08/23

Keywords

  • Computer-aided diagnosis
  • Deep learning
  • Feature-based transfer learning
  • Machine learning
  • Oral cancer
  • Oral squamous cell carcinoma

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